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Seat Adjustment Pins

I found a solution for the Seat Adjustment Pins when they get loose and almost fall out. I took a rubber cap that the automotive industry caps off vacumn hose fittings with and pushed it over the ball end of the pin. They are available at most automotive stores. Just push the rubber cap over the end of the pins where the little ball is and they keep the pins in the holes. I had trouble with the pins backing out and almost coming out. I looked at my wifes after our last 12 mile ride and her pins were just about to fall out so I put the caps on her's also. Just one way to make sure the pins stay in place. If you ride on some bumpy paved roads or bumpy dirt then the pins have a tendency to bounce inside the holes and work themselves almost out, I haven't lost one yet but am sure I would lose one if I didn't apply this fix. Just a thought to share on an item that could get lost while riding. Good luck and keep trikeing.

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That's a very good idea! For the pins on my Rover, as a hold over solution until something better comes along, I just took a rubber band, doubled it up, looped it through the key ring part, then around the pin on the other side.
Can kind of see it in this pic:

Another cheap simple pin fix, before the original pins are lost. On my Rover I put small zip ties around the seat tube, and through the loop of the pin, locking it tightly in place. The zip ties are light enough they can easily be broken if need be by twisting a pen or rod thru them, or easily cut with a pocketknife.

I have found an assortment of zip ties almost as essential for a Red Green guy like myself as duct tape and WD40.

Red Green is kind of like Canada's Larry the Cable Guy, not his actual name or personality, but how the world knows him. The Red Green show is sketch comedy/home improvement parody. I grew up (I'm only 26) watching it on PBS late at night with my grandpa when he got home from work. When you're that young you believe most things on t.v. so his comedy kind of became a way of life for me.

Back to topic, after a few rides on bumpier roads, I noticed the rubber band idea I had just isn't cutting it. The pins were loosening themselves enough that the rubber bands slipped off. Time to come up with another quick release method so I can still get it in the car when I want to.

for a permanent usable solution so you don't loose them, go to your local hardware store and buy a small spring, they have them about the diameter of a pencil in many lengths, just get one long enough to put a little tension on it but it will be long enough that you can easily pull the pins when you need to.
Hook the spring into the rings on the pins and just insert both pins from the outside going in and the spring will be pulling them together keeping both in place.